Posted by mike on February 29th, 2004

Fracture is a fractal screensaver for Mac OS X that creates some of the most fantastic, richly detailed fractal images I have ever seen.

I don’t normally configure a screensaver; preferring instead to simply allow the energy-savings mode to kick in. Fracture creates such lovely images that I not only spent the …

Posted by mike on February 28th, 2004

I had another tip published at the MacOSXhints site. After CarbonCopyCloning my internal harddisk to an external firewire drive I noticed problems with my mail client, Firebird. It would sort of start, but the menus weren’t displayed correctly and neither were messages. Also, the only way to kill the program was …

Posted by mike on February 27th, 2004

Jerry on cover of American Funeral Director Magazine

via rec.music.gdead

Posted by mike on February 26th, 2004

This afternoon I underwent a successfull Mohs surgery for the removal of a basal cell skin cancer from my chin. The cancer was non-life threatening, and apparently basal cell skin cancers are relatively common, and very easily treated.

The basic procedure is that they perform an initial round of surgery, taking perhaps 10-15 minutes, …

Posted by mike on February 26th, 2004

Last night I decided to take another look at the idea of providing a way for visitors to this site to be able to change the color scheme. I had the “grey” look from Grey Tuesday, and a couple of other CSS files I’d created, so it was time to look for …